In re Judicial Campaign Complaint Against Carr

This is the first case in which this court is asked to review enforcement of Canon 7 of the Code of Judicial Conduct and related disciplinary procedures in Section 5, Rule II of the Supreme Court Rules for the Government of the Judiciary.

Canon 7 was revised as a result of a review of Ohio’s judicial election system by the Citizens’ Committee on Judicial Elections established by the Supreme Court in 1994. The committee tackled issues of campaign conduct, campaign finance, enforcement and sanctions, and the public’s perception of the judicial system in Ohio and proposed what ultimately became…